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Re:Nuclear startup Oklo gets thumbs-down from regulators by jabl on Saturday January 15, 2022 @02:53AM (#29944593)
> Water reactors have no future for the same reason nobody has built a coal plant since 1980. The steam turbine and associated heat exchangers are unacceptably large and capital intensive compared to modern fossil fuel power plants based on gas turbines.

Hmm, seems China, India and Indonesia are still building them at a rate of one per week or so, unfortunately. Heck, even Germany opened a new coal plant last year.

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Re:Nuclear startup Oklo gets thumbs-down from regulators by boshomi on Saturday January 15, 2022 @07:55AM (#29945960)
The hard coal power plant Dattel was planned in the 2000s and serves as a replacement for three shut down power plants. It was the last coal-fired power plant that will ever go online in Germany. It has to be shut down in 2038 due to the general phase-out of coal.
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